... , sympathetic to their plight. The third and fourth lines continue the tone and theme of the first two. "Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, and toward our distant rest began to trudge". The phrase "haunting flares" is a reference to the soldiers" impression of the flare artillery shells. In World War I, flares were typically shot off preparatory to an ... . The flares must have been an evil omen to the battle weary soldiers unfortunate enough to experience a barrage. "Toward our distant rest" is a reference to a march to the rear for rest and recuperation. An alternate inter...

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... D.C to protest the war (Von Eschen lecture, Global Protest and Détente) From this atmosphere, two Berkeley residents formed the Black Panther, an African American revolutionary leftist party that practiced militant self-defense against U.S. government brutality, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community-based programs. These Panthers carried weapons in public, wore berets symbolizing the revolutionary Che ... ...

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... example, anti-Communists sentiments burned with a vengeance. They made calls to "halt at once the vicious red program of world enslavement."" By the late 1940s, anti-Communism of the most militant shades had a firm foundation among those ethnic groups with roots in Eastern Europe, communities for whom the name of Yalta was an abomination, and who saw American liberals as despicably ... ...

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... in the overall war. While Serbia was home to the Black Hand terrorist group responsible for the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, there was never a precise official relationship established between that militant group and the Serbian government. Although Serbians feared for and hoped to protect their brethren living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire from persecution, it was clear that they were willing ... ...

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... villages and all source of resources; to illustrate, Kovno, Vilna, Vitebsk, Smolensk, Viasna, Gzatsk, Borodino and Moscow were among the cities brought down to ruins. Second, Napoleon was an unmerciful militant commander. Many of his soldiers died due to his orders to continue through such cold temperatures. While fighting with the Russians, many French soldiers died due to starvation and the ... ...

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... army that was established in the latter half of the 19th century had a focus primarily on provincial armies dedicated to quelling peasant uprisings, rather than resisting imperialist aggressions by the militant western states. The military views would be one of the many facets of Chinese culture that would be revolutionized in the modernizing of the Chinese state. The Japanese began mobilizing ... ...

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... unnoticed, especially in countries outside the immediate region. However, now there are Fulan Gong movements worldwide trying to influence world opinion. Other, more powerful movements include the anti capitalist movement, militant Islam, and political movements such as the freedom for Palestine pressure group. This seems like an extremely complex, organic system - but how did this all come about? The international system ... ...

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... to the presence on both sides, the Communist Party and the democratic opposition, of peacefully-minded reformists committed to a peaceful solution, while the Catholic Church managed to cool down some militant opposition fractions. The government's inability to forestall Poland's economic decline led to waves of strikes across the country in April, May, and August 1988. In an attempt to take control ... ...

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... had led to a widespread feeling that the future lay in socialism. The image of capitalism had been tarnished by its association with the system that had fostered the emergence of militant fascism, war and the horrors of concentration camps and the holocaust. As the horrors of the Nazi's anti- Jewish policies and the treatment of those deemed racially undesirable became apparent ... ...

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... her promise and lives and works for the people. ("Her Majesty the Queen" 1-8) In November of 1927, Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, now the Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. Both were distant cousins yet that is something we need not get into. They had four children each named respectively Charles (the Prince of Wales), Anne (the Princess Royal), Andrew (the Duke of ... . Following the Coronation on June 2nd, the men and women of Great Britain were looking forward to a new age, a second Elizabethan era in which the image of wars would become a distant memory and the normal pace of li...

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... out to prevent the painful friction of raw surfaces rubbing together" (Atwan/McQuade 35) totally contradicted all of my assumptions of quick, painless death or internal radiation problems in the distant future periods after the bomb. Stories from other parts of the diary also greatly affected me emotionally. An account that Dr. Hachiya recorded from a colleague related the story of four ... garden. For some reason, this touched a particular part of my heart, and the care given to the horse reminded me that, instead of being seemingly fictional characters from an increasingly distant pas...

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... explosions took place and thousands of lives were taken in seconds. We imagine the soldiers as being tired and due a break from the ceaseless fighting as they stroll towards their distant rest because the passage states that the men where "deaf even to the hoots of gas-shells dropping softly behind" and, "Drunk with fatigue". This context metaphorically suggests the men ... they have had to put up with. We then turn our attentions o the alarming situation of the deteriorating men, "all went lame, all blind". They don't march they limp. Their distant view is blocked by the life threateni...

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... on the haunting flares, maybe in a half-hearted effort to shut them out of their minds. Line four is even less enthusiastic - it describes the men as "trudging to their distant rest". At least the men have something to look forward to, but then again maybe not, maybe the sentence has a double meaning, maybe ... "distant rest" is meant to be read further into and is a disguised synonym of the deaths that eventually the men will encounter. If this is the case then the line is ... ...

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... ensues if one cannot see their target. This becomes the job of the rifle scope. Since many soldiers prefer to not have to look down cold iron sights the see a distant enemy, rifles have been enhanced through the use of optical sights. These sights magnify both the vision and the light that is seen by the shooter. In most cases optical ... considered it to be a peripheral activity. Sniping later evolves with the coming of the Vietnam War. Involved later with sniping, the government finally considered using snipers as a backbone to eliminate distant targets. Better rifles were issued to t...

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In 1942, American leaders were faced with a decision: Should the United States engage in "from the sea" operations in two distant theaters or should operations be delayed in one theater while being undertaken in the other. While at the time the risk of the actions -- at worst the loss of the ... the United States to fight even a defensive war, much less an offensive war. The war in the Pacific depended on naval forces; the battlegrounds were on the sea and on distant island strongholds. The Navy would have to transport ground forces to island battlefields, support those ground forces through...

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... human life, not to mention the permeate environmental problems they will do the planet. With all these problems plaguing our world, human survival is very hard to see in the distant further unless there is some drastic measure's to right the wrongs like more on recycling and a different source of power besides the burning of fossil fuels. I believe that eventually we ... will either have to destroy everything and start from scratch. Or move to a distant plant like the moon or even mars but these answers will not become available for a long time yet so a huge world reform is in order or ...

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... Bulgaria and Romania. Nachmani (1990) also opined that there were two major effects of the 'percentages agreement'. Firstly, in general, the Greek Civil War was viewed as treachery and a blatant breach of the 'percentages agreement'. Secondly, the West started to believe that any future attempts for making accords with Stalin should be treated with extreme cautions. The polish, the ... ...

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... . Still it is not much different than the claims some other ads make today about attaining women and acceptance through the use of their products. It is just not as blatant today as it was back then. The news media from 1914 seems to have remained virtually unchanged as far as how they report and what they report. The same issues ... ...

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... case. After examining the actions of some of the modern presidents it is evident that the president can be a hindrance to democracy as well as a supporter. One of the most blatant, yet rarely noticed by the public, abuses of the democratic system occurs during presidential campaigns. This is when presidential candidates make promises in their campaign, that when elected to office ... ...

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... her "New Look" hats as instruments of foreign policy, bestowing them upon such international figures as Queen Elizabeth! and Nina Khrushchev "the later of whom would never wear "such a blatant emblem of capitalist excess in public" (32). The combination of a forty-hour workweek, vacations, early retirement and paid holidays provided Americans with leisure time for their families and for personal ... ...

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... case. After examining the actions of some of the modern presidents it is evident that the president can be a hindrance to democracy as well as a supporter. One of the most blatant, yet rarely noticed by the public, abuses of the democratic system occurs during presidential campaigns. This is when presidential candidates make promises in their campaign, that when elected to office ... ...

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... the modern era leap at the reader, the most obvious of which relates to the idea of suffering in the modern world. Though both poems reside in mild if not blatant modernism, the effect on the reader is entirely different. Auden chooses to restore coherence to the disjointed modern world. In doing so, the reader is able to gain perspective on ... ...

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... an obviously bias tone, and replete with more logical fallacies than the last Canadian Alliance election platform. Granatstein and Johnston rely on the testimony of unnamed sources, unpublished papers, and blatant hearsay to develop their argument. They do not present one bit of conclusive evidence to support their controversial claims. In this article, the authors attempt to convey their impartiality as ... ...

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... who were in the agreement for the establishment of the Court. The bully tactics against countries which defy America by refusing to weaken their commitment to the court have become blatant in the recent months Countries vulnerable to American pressure are told that unless they offer the Americans the desired immunity from prosecution, punishment will be swift and severe. (Crawshaw, 2003 ... ...

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... usually found some, but she was insatiable and if she had gone out seven nights a week, it would not have cured her of a reflective lookThe look of someone who hears distant music-for she would always suppose there was a more brilliant party somewhere else." She expresses her disregard for the actions of Francis when she states, "I've worked hard ... ...

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